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Saturday, October 31, 2015

Hi guys! In the past few weeks, the weather has been getting chillier, department stores have begun to unleash their premature Christmas displays, and I have felt the overwhelming urge to eat copious amounts of candy. Clearly, Halloween is coming!

With the glorious sugar filled day now upon us, I thought I would show off a fun design for the trick or treat fest.

So, no, these are not your typical Halloween nails. Though most people
go for gory designs (bloody nails, eyeballs, dripping blood, etc.), I'm
just not into it (though I can definitely appreciate the skill that goes
into making the gore lol). I am more of a spooky, creepy, thriller,
personality type. Essentially, I would prefer to watch Hide and Seek or
Secret Window over Thirteen Ghosts or Amityville Horror. So these nails
are more creepy Victorian mansion filled with cobwebs than psycho killer
ghost running with a bloody knife. What's your favorite Halloween movie? Do you prefer ghosts and hauntings or crazy axe murderer's?

Sunday, October 18, 2015

Hi guys! I know it's been quite a while since there's been any activity on this page and I just wanted to give everyone a quick update. You may have seen this post already if you've been following my Facebook page (I posted this there a few weeks back):

"The other day Facebook informed me that it had been almost 5 months since my last post. Yikes! I have had bloggers I absolutely loved following disappear without a trace and it always left me wondering what had happened. I figured that wasn't fair to you guys, so I wanted to explain why I haven't been around.

Sigh. The truth is, I haven't done my nails in about 4 months. I haven't even wanted to. Yes, I know, this sounds like blasphemy. As much as I loved blogging and interacting with the nail polish community, I think I put too much pressure on myself to keep up with what everyone else was doing. I became very insecure about my designs and felt they didn't compare to what else was out there. Every week, when I sat down to do my nails, it was because I knew I needed to do a blog post, not because I wanted to relax and do something for myself. Doing my nails became something that ended up on my "to do" list, right next to picking up the dry cleaning. It became harder and harder to come up with new designs, and eventually I just stopped all together. I didn't have the energy and though I used to do my nails to help me relax, blogging ended up stressing me out.

So, there's my confession. I do apologize for leaving you guys hanging for so long and I do hope you understand."

So that's my story.

After months and months of being polish celibate, I have just started doing my nails again and to be honest, it feels good, although some days I have doubts about whether or not I want to continue. For now, I have decided to keep my blog page and my other social media sites.

I have decided to change how I use this specific blog page, so in the upcoming months you may see more photo heavy posts, and less writing. I will use this page to announce giveaways, talk about specific polish reviews (in detail), and any other exciting announcements that come up. Generally though, I think I will be posting more using my Facebook page and will end up using this page as a "to see more pictures, check out my blog" type thing.

Now, onto the fun part! How did I get out of my blogger's slump you ask? Well it all started with an email from one of my favorite brands, ILNP. I received an email about their upcoming preorder for the Fall 2015 collection and literally started to drool. Seconds later, a few ILNP polishes had landed in my shopping cart!

During the preorder (which is over btw), I picked up quite a few polishes (like maybe too many lol). The one I am showing you today is ILNP's Pretty Little Liar, which is described as a rich, dark, holographic plum. ILNP Pretty Little Liar is the PERFECT fall color. Let me tell you, this little polish carries a ton of sparkle and it is absolutely gorgeous. See for yourself:

And as is typical with my experience of ILNP's polish, application was perfect. Formula was great, not too thick and applied and dried smoothly. Shown here is two coats, with Seche Vite Top Coat. Just a side note, two coats gave me an opacity of 90%. Next time I might do a thin 3rd coat or be more generous with the amount of polish I use during the first two coats.

But seriously, look at all that sparkle 0__0

So I hope you enjoyed today's post and thanks for listening! Thanks for stopping by :)

XOXO, On Wednesdays, We Wear Polish “So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.” ― Lee Iacocca